Siheyuan: I am the God of Cooking, and all the birds are crying with envy!

In the Red Flag Brigade, the chilling shadow of the water poisoning incident has just begun to dissipate

However, the new panic swept in swiftly like a silent storm.

Under the old willow tree, the women and old men sat together as usual, but at this moment, their faces no longer had the leisure and tranquility of the past, but were replaced by full of worry and anxiety.

All the topics revolved around the heartbreaking incident of the missing children in the Morning Glory Commune.

An old lady with snow-white hair frowned deeply, and the palm-leaf fan in her hand waved weakly, intermittently.

It was as if even the fan carried the heaviness in his heart: "This matter of losing the child is like a sharp hook that deeply hooks my heart."

"When my little grandson goes out to play every day, my heart is like a bucket hanging in the air, up and down, afraid that if I don't pay attention for a moment, the child will disappear."

A young mother beside me subconsciously clenched the corners of her clothes with both hands, her knuckles turning slightly white due to the force.

Her eyes were filled with fear, like a frightened deer: "My child has just learned to walk, and his steps are still shaky."

"Now, I dare not let him leave my side for even a moment."

"Now I heard that the missing child disappeared mysteriously right under his grandmother's nose in just three minutes. How scary is that!"

Her voice trembled slightly, and there was endless fear in that trembling, as if the missing child had now been replaced by her own baby.

"That's true," a middle-aged woman quickly agreed, her face full of sympathy and worry.

"My neighbor's wife has been like a lost soul, almost crazy since she found out her child was missing."

"For a mother, her child is the apple of her eye, more important than her own life."

"If I can't find it back, how am I going to live in the future?" She shook her head and sighed, with a look of pain on her face.

That expression seemed to reveal her deep sympathy for the daughter-in-law next door.

At this time, a tall and thin woman came over quietly, lowered her voice slightly, and said mysteriously: "Do you think this child was abducted by the hateful human traffickers? Recently, I have heard that human traffickers are extremely rampant and specifically target these young and ignorant children."

Her words were like a stone thrown into a calm lake, instantly plunging everyone into deep silence.

After a moment, an old man slowly broke the suffocating silence: "If it was done by human traffickers, maybe it's a blessing in disguise. At least there's a direction to track them down."

"I am afraid that there are other more terrifying things. Have any suspicious strangers appeared near us?"

When everyone heard this, they shook their heads helplessly.

At this moment, the fat woman spoke again: "No matter what, the police must work harder and hurry up to solve the case. Look, people are in a panic every day, who can still live a peaceful life?"

Although her words sounded reasonable, the gloating expression that inadvertently revealed on her face was like a thorn that deeply hurt everyone's hearts and immediately attracted a wave of dissatisfied and reproachful glances.

The young mothers no longer cared about the fat woman and began to have a heated discussion with each other.

"I lie in bed every night, staring at the ceiling, my mind filled with my child. I can't fall asleep at all, for fear of hearing any unusual noises in the dead of night."

"I really want to find a rope to tie the child to my side, but this is not a long-term solution after all. The child also needs space to play freely."

"We have searched everywhere in the commune and the brigade, but we just can't find him. Where on earth could this child have gone?"

Amid the constant discussions among the crowd, He Yuzhu's serious and solemn voice suddenly came from the radio.

He broadcast the news of the missing children in the Morning Glory Commune three times clearly and forcefully. Each broadcast was like a heavy hammer, hitting everyone's heart hard, making everyone's heart tighten.

Then, he went on to explain in detail some precautions and points to note. However, at this moment, everyone's minds were already completely occupied by the missing child, and they had no time to care about anything else.

"Do you think there might be some hidden secret passage here?

Will those bad human traffickers use this passage to secretly hide the children and then transport them away without anyone noticing?"

A woman with a creative mind came up with her own rather strange idea.

"It's not that mysterious." An old man said with disdain, "I think we should be down-to-earth and start with the people nearby to investigate carefully.

See if there are any strangers here, or if anyone is behaving unusually.”

A woman with eyes as sharp as a hawk seemed to suddenly remember something and raised her voice and said, "I did see a stranger sneaking around the edge of the village a few days ago. I don't know if it has anything to do with the child's disappearance."

Her words were like a bomb, which instantly aroused everyone's high alert. People gathered around and eagerly asked for details.

"What does he look like?"

"When exactly did you see it?"

"Did you talk to him?"

The woman narrowed her eyes slightly and tried to recall the scene at that time: "The man was tall and thin, wearing a black suit and a hat on his head, which covered his face tightly and made it impossible to see his appearance clearly.

That evening, I happened to pass by the entrance of the village and saw him wandering there.

I felt strange, so I walked over to ask him what he was doing. He hesitated for a long time and just said he was looking for someone. Then he left in a hurry. He looked very suspicious.

"There must be something wrong!" everyone shouted almost in unison.

At this time, everyone's hearts were not only filled with deep worry and concern for the missing children, but also with strong suspicion of this mysterious outsider.

This mysterious stranger is undoubtedly like a bomb hidden in the dark, which may detonate a bigger crisis at any time. He also seems to be an extremely critical potential foreshadowing of this missing child case.

It also caused the entire Red Flag Brigade to be shrouded in a thicker and deeper fog, making it impossible to see the road ahead or to understand the truth behind it.

A young father also joined the discussion: "I think we can't just make blind guesses here without any basis, we need to take action, organize ourselves, and help the police find clues.

After all, one more person means one more force, and maybe at some unexpected moment, we can find some crucial clues."

"Yes, we have to take action." Everyone responded, with firmness and determination in their voices.

However, behind this seemingly united and concerted effort, everyone's heart is still beating like a little rabbit, full of fear.

After all, facing such an unknown enemy, no one can be sure whether the next person to suffer misfortune will be their own child.

As the discussion continued, various speculations about the missing child emerged like mushrooms after rain.

Some said that the child might have been accidentally taken away by a wild animal while playing alone. Although the possibility of this is extremely small, just this statement is enough to make everyone terrified, and all kinds of terrible scenes involuntarily emerge in their minds.

Others speculated that the child was secretly taken away by a childless family, perhaps because they were so eager to have a child of their own that they resorted to this desperate measure.

Others say that this may be the work of a tightly organized criminal gang with clear division of labor, who specialize in roaming between various communes and engaging in the evil activity of trafficking in children.

Every speculation was like a sharp blade, piercing the parents' hearts and making their faces paler and bloodless.

Their hearts were struggling in the abyss of pain and worry, as if they were in endless darkness, unable to find a glimmer of light or hope.

A mother finally couldn't hold back any more and burst into tears. She was heartbroken, "I only have this one child, I absolutely can't do that... If it's my only child... I won't live..."

Her sorrowful cry seemed to be highly contagious, and instantly the eyes of other mothers also turned red. Tears kept swirling in their eyes, and it seemed that if they just blinked even a little, the tears would burst out like a flood.

At this moment, the figure of the mysterious stranger was like an unforgettable nightmare, deeply imprinted in everyone's mind.

Who is he? Where does he come from?

And why was he wandering around the village entrance stealthily?

Is he related to the child's disappearance?

All these mysteries, like extremely heavy mountains, weighed heavily on the hearts of every member of the Red Flag Brigade, causing this originally peaceful and tranquil place to fall completely into an endless quagmire of anxiety and panic, from which it was unable to extricate itself.